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Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Fort Worth, TX

May 3, 1991Young County, Texas

NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 1991, 5:52 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 3, 1991, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1991, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Fort Worth, TX
Area
Whole counties

County Young County, TX

The nearest sounding before it

Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-05-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2305 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Stephenville/Cla, TX at 12:00Z on 1991-05-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 257 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
2305 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.9
Supercell composite
13.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
100 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1991

...SUPPLEMENTAL NORTH TEXAS STORM REPORTS FOR MAY 3 1991...

   TIME OF
  OCCURRENCE      COUNTY                     EVENT

440 AM CDT      CAMP           60+ MPH WINDS BROKE NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS
                               AND DOWNED SOME TREES IN EASTERN OF
                               COUNTY BY LAKE OF THE PINES.

440 AM CDT      UPSHUR         A FEW LARGE LIMBS BROKEN...60 MPH WINDS
                               IN EXTREME NORTHEAST PART OF COUNTY NEAR
                               LAKE OF THE PINES.

520 AM CDT      UPSHUR         BRIDGE WASHED OUT IN NORTHWEST PART OF
                               COUNTY. TREES DOWN ALONG FM 1844 AND
                               FM 259 IN SOUTHEAST PART OF COUNTY.
Special weather statement, May 3, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
TXZ021>033-025-032100-

SPECIAL WEATHER AND FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
245 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1991

AT 235 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM
ACTIVITY CONTINUING OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.  SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS
WERE IN THE DFW METROPLEX AREA.  STRONGER ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED FROM
WACO TO KILLEEN TO LAMPASAS AND NORTH TO STEPHENVILLE.  THIS WAS A
NEARLY SOLID AREA OF ACTIVITY...THE STRONGEST WAS BETWEEN KILLEEN AND
WACO.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS NOTED IN SOUTHEAST JACK COUNTY ALSO
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.  PEOPLE IN WESTERN WISE COUNTY SHOULD STAY
ALERT AS THIS STORM APPROACHES.

IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN
PARIS AND TYLER.  ALSO...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHERN HOUSTON
COUNTY TO THE WEST OF LUFKIN.  MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY IS LIKELY TO HAVE HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY
WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR MOST OF NORTH CENTRAL
TEXAS.  THE WATCH AREA IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WICHITA FALLS TO PARIS
AND INCLUDES THE METROPLEX AREA...WACO...BROWNWOOD...AND TEMPLE.

A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FOR TODAY AND
TONIGHT...EAST OF A LINE FROM SHERMAN TO HAMILTON TO SAN SABA.  THE DFW
METROPLEX...WACO...PARIS...LONGVIEW...AND LUFKIN ARE INCLUDED IN THE
WATCH AREA.  ADDITIONAL RAIN IN THE WATCH AREA WILL POSE A DANGER OF
FLASH FLOODING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE
LATEST INFORMATION ON TODAY'S WEATHER.
Local storm report, May 3, 5:31 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung59 min
May 3, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDTarrant63 min
May 3, 1:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCollin, Fannin, Hunt55 min
May 3, 1:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDDallas44 min
May 3, 2:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLamar, Red River53 min
May 3, 2:52 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDRed River53 min
May 3, 3:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCamp, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood67 min
May 3, 5:04 AM CDTTornado WarningFWDSmith, Upshur41 min
May 3, 5:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDSmith53 min
May 3, 12:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell, Coryell66 min
May 3, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack, Young64 min
May 3, 1:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCoryell, McLennan57 min
May 3, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell66 min
May 3, 2:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDBell4 hr
May 3, 2:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDColeman56 min
May 3, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDJack68 min
May 3, 2:33 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDMcLennan3 hr
May 3, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan, Taylor62 min
May 3, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFalls59 min
May 3, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell56 min
May 3, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDPalo Pinto54 min
May 3, 2:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFWDColeman64 min
May 3, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens59 min
May 3, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDCallahan64 min
May 3, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBell63 min
May 3, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLimestone, Robertson58 min
May 3, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung42 min
May 3, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDBrown69 min
May 3, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDLeon61 min
May 3, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens68 min
May 3, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDYoung65 min
May 3, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDFreestone63 min
May 3, 5:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDYoung4 hr
May 3, 5:08 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDCamp, Morris, Titus3 hr
May 3, 5:24 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningFWDStephens3 hr
May 3, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDStephens61 min
May 3, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFWDAnderson65 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.